The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: Prehistory-1491 AD - The Ancient and Medieval World v. 1 (Helicon history)

by HeliconBooks (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $5.21

  Starting with the year 3000 BC, this volume traces the growth of civilizations and empires around the world - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Greece, Italy and the Americas. It begins as the Neolithic and Bronze Age culture of Siyalk comes to an end, and concludes in the year in which Christopher Columbus made preparations for his momentous voyage, a year that also saw the births of Henry VIII, the future king of England, Jaques Cartier, the French explorer of the North American Atlantic coast, and the death of William Caxton, the first English printer.

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.23

  Begins with the ratification of the American Declaration of Independence and ends with the re-election of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, the Boxer Rising in China, and the Paris International Exhibition. During this period, the world changes more in the course of a few generations than in the previous 1000 years and sees such innovations as the automobile and aeroplane, the telephone, psychiatry, the camera, the radio, Coca-Cola, and the ice cream cone.